Golden Age Living Center

Located in Stover, Missouri, Golden Age Living Center is the only facility we identified in the city. With an overall rating of B, this looks like a very respectable nursing home. Based on our ratings, you could do much worse than this place. More information on this facility's category grades may be found below. Its best category is long-term care, which is discussed in the next section.

To pair with its strong overall score, we gave this facility an A+ for our long-term care grade. When facilities receive a grade in this range in long-term care it generally means it's well-staffed and is an overall good place to live on a permanent basis. In addition to looking at the volume of care provided by nurses and other staff, we also looked at the percentage of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 100 percent of its patients, which is significantly higher than the vast majority of nursing homes. Lastly, we looked at the facility's number of hospitalizations. With 1.98 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this facility was just about middle of the road in this area.

In addition, this nursing home also excelled in inspections, where it earned an A. Few nursing homes performed better in this category. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in determining our inspection ratings. One critical factor is health deficiencies. You should keep in mind that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more meaningful than the quantity of deficiencies, as some end up being relatively insignificant. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This facility's next best category was its nursing grade, where it received a grade of C. While this didn't quite match its scores in some of the categories discussed above, this is still a decent score. We weighed the skill-level of nurses employed by the nursing home, as well as the number of hours those nurses worked with patients, in determining our grade in this area. According to its staffing data, this place provided an average of 3.9 hours of nursing care per patient each day, which was above average. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in some quality-focused statistics. Specifically, we look at the percent of residents who sustained pressure ulcers and major falls. We view these datapoints as reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care, since better care tends to reduce these problems.

The final category we analyzed was short-term care. We awarded this nursing home a D in our short-term care category, making this the nursing home's worst category. Short-term care grades are crucial for patients needing rehabilitation. Rehabilitation typically requires higher levels of skilled nursing. This means a wide range of services, spanning from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other variations of therapy. We found that this place was subpar in several staffing areas we looked at. In fact, it supplied fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per patient than most other facilities. Lastly, we considered the percentage of patients who eventually returned home from this facility. This nursing home didn't fare well here either. In fact, we found that just 34.2 percent of this facility's residents were able to return home.